Heroics and Ros 6mm progress.

 Hi all,

Having not done much in a while I had the opportunity to sit down for two evenings and make progress. My wife was out in London for the day on Saturday, so after a busy day tiring the kids out and having a great time with them and some friends, I sat myself down Saturday evening and started trying to smash out some infantry. 

I painted the green onto quite a lot of US infantry (helmets) and then their gear I painted a lighter green, then washed them. Unfortunately I squeezed too much green paint out so found a bunch of other things to paint. 

I then cut the US infantry off their strips and attached them to bases - this damaged the paint on some of them which has helped me decide how best to paint up my figures now. 

On Sunday night I painted the bases (bare coin) with my sand colour and then covered with flock. I like the basing system I now have, but an improvement will be made by doing the following:

1. Glue unpainted miniatures to bases.

2. Prime the miniature stands white.

3. Paint the bases sand.

4. Paint the miniatures - I think this will be slightly slower as they won't be on strips, but I won't damage the paint removing from strips to put on bases. 

5. Flock bases.

6. Brush the loose flock off of the miniatures.

7. Seal with a spray.

Here are my almost finished miniatures:

I now have a second platoon of Soviets, maybe even a third. You can see some individually based figures - I had originally avoided doing this because most squads don't survive doing down to one man, but I thought I would just in case. And who knows...maybe they will see service in Five Parsecs from Home.

This equals 6 and a bit squads of US infantry. I just need more BAR teams to allow me to field more platoons. I will likely be buying a few strips of BAR teams in my next order - along with some more heavy brits and some Soviet LMG gunners. 

A couple of PIAT teams, a sniper team and some other infantry. I have a couple more stands to make. I want to be able to field 2 platoons but can't quite do that yet.